Filmmaker Steven Spielberg is set to tackle a DC Comics property, producing and potentially directing the World War II action-adventure Blackhawk for Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures.
Frequent Spielberg collaborator David Koepp is writing the script for the project which is being developed as a potential directing vehicle for Spielberg who will produce with Kristie Macosko Krieger. Sue Kroll will executive produce.
Will Eisner co-created the comic which follows an international squadron of heroic pilots, led by a man named Blackhawk, who fought the Nazis in World War II.
Spielberg is still on track to make a fifth “Indiana Jones his next movie.